CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2037, 23 March 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 21

The Post Office notifies that mails for New. Zealand will at present only bo despatched via Suez.

Mr. Maurice Frater, a missionary, lias written to the Colonial Oils, admitting that the New Hebrides Convention is the first attempt to Introduce law-and order in connection with recruiting in that group, and to end the present barbarous condition of affairs.

Count Lamsdorff succu tiled to heart disease.

A bag of registered lette-s, its contents valued at £BO,OOO, has been stolen between New York and Fori*. A man with £BOOO in his pooSOfticn i.;i« been arrested, and has confessed to being connected with the robbery An all-night sitting of the Gome of Commons continues. Members are discussing the proposal that flogging and all corporal iiunishment in the Army be abolished in war time. The arrested suffragettes were each fmed 20s to 40s, in tlie alternative a month or lesser terms of imprisonment.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 21

Tlie fact of the Duma being in session has not diminished the activity of the terrorists in the provinces, wliero policemen and gendarmes art daily murdered and many robberies committed. PORT SAID, March 21. The Dutch liner Rindgani got badly ashore at Ivabra and blocked the Suez Canal for a day. The canal is now clear. - PRETORIA, March 21. Sir Richard Solomon accompanies General Botha to England. Mr. Smuts intends to submit a proposal to the Transvaal Parliament for reinstatement of the Asiatic ordinance which Lord Elgin disallowed. Sir Gilbert Parker, interviewed, said if, as he felt sure it would be, the ordinance was re-enacted, Lord Elgin would hardly venture again to disallow it, as 99 out of every 100 whites in South Africa thoroughly approved. CAIRO, March 21. . With a view to the irrigation of an area one and a half times greater than at present, it is proposed to add IS, feet to the height of the Assouan dam, Egypt, at a cost of one million and a half. It is feared the famous temples of Philve will he completely submerged. BERLIN, March 21.

The stevedores’ strike lias rendered idle 234 vessels at Hamburg. NEW YORK, March 21.

Mikkclsen’s Anglo-American Polar expedition schooner Duchess of Bedford is frozen up 200 miles off Port Barrow, Alaska. Preparations are being completed to explore unknown country to the north. There are indications of one large island not far distant from tlip mainland. MELBOURNE, March 21.

In connection >»dth the hearing of a maintenance case the husband claimed that the trouble arose through the wife voting at the Fedeial elections against his will. Female franchise in some cases, ho said, was a curse to the country. The only women who wanted votes were those who had no children.

SYDNEY, March 21. A representative meeting at tho Town Hall endorsed a proposal to hold an international exhibition at Sydney about 1910. Considerable opposition-was shown by a section of manufacturers. Hcnalle, a Singleton chemist, was awarded £250 damages for libel against a local newspaper, flic Budget and Singleton Advertiser, arising out of comment on plaintiff’s decision as judge of the local races. Two witnesses in flic case were committed for trial for perjury. Parker continued his victorious career in the New South Wales championship tenuis matches to-day. lie mot Dr. Pocklcy to whom he succumbed last year, and easily defeated him by 6—2, 6—3, 6—2. Thp New Zealander played with his usual dash and accuracy of judgment. Pocklcy was off his game. HOBART, March 22.

'1 lie Commission appointed to enquire into the condition of tlic missing steamer Centennial found tho vessel was unsoaworthy and tho surveyor’s examination not as full as it should have been.

PERTH, March 22. Divers will be employed to reach the entombed miner.

Later reports show the schooners Cuttysark and Eclipse and ten pearling luggers were wrecked in a storm m the Exmouth Gulf on tho 14th and five Japanese were drowned.